Barefoot young girls rejoice
like soft spring emissaries
curling grass blades between toes
singing lamplight songs from dawn
till dusk, voices leading a forest chorale.
spotted fawns frolic
stags rub velvet from antlers
does guard habitats
Arm in arm teen couples walk streets
at twilight, owning a list of undying
platitudes professing a knowledge of life,
love, and romance as wheat fields ripened,
trysts became sacred, ideals blossomed.
beachcombing magic
snails and starfish fill buckets
solstice sand wishes
Scarlett oak and red maple trees
display landscape grandeur creating
a full-on cavalcade of colors as other leaves
yellow, turn brown, drop, and decay without pleasuring
one’s vision with a fiery wonderland display.
Mabon fires smoke
furrow quail and pheasants crouch
autumn shades Dawn’s veil
Fleecy snowflakes, rise, fall, drift
and settle like icy wind sculptures
fashioned by mother nature’s chilly hands
light, porous, as soft and delicate as
old man winter’s white whiskers.
warm yule hearths enhance
hot Aperol toddy sips
under mistletoe
